You resemble my younger self.

LOOKS LIKE A MULTIPLE SOLUTION DAY. Thanks to @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social who provided some alternatives.
Here's my solution.
Fictional hotels, motels, guest houses etc (Yes, Amanda's was the failed American spin-off of Fawlty Towers), US States, ladders & crackers. Let's play again tomorrow.

Solution: Financial products, forms of capital punishment, Children's authors and followed by AROUND.

Solution: England Women's Managers, Actors who played Van Helsing, Famous Peters and half of historical partnerships Marie & PIERRE Curie, Victoria and ALBERT, Anthony and CLEOPATRA & Sampson and DELILAH. See you tomorrow.

Solution: Ice creams, old professions, Sri Lankan locations and TV Detectives.

Solution: Scandals, toothpaste brands, millennium and York city gates. See you tomorrow.

Solution: Fictional planets, anagrams, gases/elements and lights. See you tomorrow for more fun.

Solution: Ice, monopoly, 1980s American TV series & preceded by man. See you tomorrow for another grid.

Almost there.

Solution: Chat show hosts, board games, motorbike brands and musicals.

Solution: Lindas, Golden, Drugs and Maximum / minimum measures.

Solution: Singers that have appeared in Eastenders, Forms of lace, types of cream & English south coast counties.
Tune in again tomorrow for another grid.